[Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2010-02-18 Thread osteenbergen
Just reinstalled yesterday and it seems to work perfectly (except manual need to install GRUB with the force option because doesn't like the EFI/partitions) ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence htt

[Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2010-02-16 Thread Gabe Gorelick
Is this still an issue with Karmic final? ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

Re: [Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2009-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
In general we can't ensure that the partition number sequence corresponds to the physical order on the disk. The reason for that is as follows. Consider an existing installation: 1 - data 2 - other operating system Let us imagine that we resize partition 1 to make room for Ubuntu. Now we have e

[Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2009-09-04 Thread osteenbergen
Original partition which caused the crash (in correct order on HD) - sda-1 free space (600KB or so) - sda1 EFI - sda2 OSX - sda4 swap - sda5 EXT4 Ubuntu - sda-1 free space (400KB or so) - sda3 FAT32 - sda-1 free space (600KB) But after reorganizing (Reinstalled Ubuntu partitioned with GParted) t

[Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2009-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
Presumably this is a GPT partition table? If so, you need a bios_grub partition for GRUB to use to embed itself; see http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition. We'll be improving our partitioner to deal with this better for Alpha 6. -- Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequ

[Bug 423625] Re: Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence

2009-09-03 Thread osteenbergen
** Attachment added: "Fuzzy Picture of the problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31270040/IMAG0020.jpg ** Description changed: Binary package hint: grub2 Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 4 fails to start (correct clean install with a MD5 checked CD) on MacBook Pro 4,1 Steps done: - Clean